This course contributes to the requirements for CMC certification with theCore Competency focus area of Consulting Skills and Tools, Early level

$29 for IMC USA Members, $79 for non-Members

Learn
how to write books and e-books that boost your career and share your
hard-earned expertise. Topics include how to fit books into your busy schedule,
kick-start your writing, and use creative-writing and storytelling techniques
(that make your book stand out). We’ll also explore book proposals and various
publishing options.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

Build your profits and prestige with your book or e-book

Enjoy "instant” credibility with your book or e-book

Fit your book into your busy schedule

Learn how writing a fast first draft leads to a strong
finish

Use key components of the book proposal to kick-start your
writing (and why you need one even if you’re
self-publishing!)

Hook your readers—including literary agents and editors

Make your book unique in a crowded marketplace

Overcome limiting thoughts like "There’s nothing new to
write about!”

Lynda McDaniel, founder and director of the Association for
Creative Business Writing, brings more than 25 years of writing, teaching, and
learning to her webinars.

Lynda has written 1,000 feature articles for major
publications, and she is the author of a dozen books, including her
award-winning "Words at Work: Powerful business writing delivers increased
sales, improved results, and even a promotion or two" (which took top honors
from the National Best Books Awards).

Lynda’s long career as a journalist includes feature articles
for magazines and newspapers such as Associations Now, Southern Living, Country
Living, Yoga Journal, Law & Politics, American Cinematographer,
AmericanStyle, NICHE, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Charlotte Observer, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, and washingtonpost.com.

Virginia McCullough broke into book publishing with her first coauthored
books, "TMJ Syndrome: The Overlooked Diagnosis," with A. Richard
Goldman, DDS and "Touch: A Personal Workbook" (Open Arms Press), with
Greg Risberg, MSW. More books followed, including "A Consumer’s Guide to
Alternative Health Care" (Bob Adams), co-authored with Craig Clayton, and
"When the Wrong Thing is Right" (MasterMedia), with Sylvia Bigelsen,
Ed.S. She’s the sole author of "Testing and Your Child" (NAL, 1994).
In 2005, McGraw Hill released "Coping With Chemotherapy and
Radiation," the fifth update of a cancer therapy book written with Daniel
Cukier, MD and two other doctors.

Virginia
has written eleven books for neurologist and smell and taste specialist, Alan
R. Hirsch, M.D.

Over the last three
decades, Virginia has written or "rewritten” well over 100 books and edited
many more. Regardless of subject matter, Virginia’s work with clients can begin
at any stage, from developing a fresh idea to producing a book proposal package
to adding the polish to a finished project and making it shine!